Abdulbaki Todashev, the father of
27-year-old Ibragim Todashev, told
a Moscow press conference that U.S. officials haven't told him
anything about the May 22 shooting and that he believes
that his son was killed to keep him from
talking.

“They come to your house like bandits, and they shoot
you,” he said, adding that the wounds
included six shots to the body and a “control”
shot to the back of the head. “Maybe my son knew some sort of
information that the police didn’t want to get out. They shut him
up."

Ibragim Todashev, a martial arts fighter who
knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev in Boston before before moving to Orlando,
was questioned three times in the spring and was
killed in the last meeting.

The FBI says Todashev died during a violent
confrontation. A law enforcement official told The
Post that Todashev was
unarmed, and another said
Todashevlunged at the agent and overturned
a table.

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“Why was he interrogated three times without a
lawyer?" Zaurbek Sadakhanov, a Chechen lawyer who also
was present, asked. "Why no recording? Why seven shots?
And why should I believe their version? Why do American policemen
believe they can do whatever they want?”

Police were questioning Todashev
because he had been in contact with Tamerlan
Tsarnaev prior to the bombings, had visited Tsarnaev in
Boston, and had a ticket to fly to Russia this month to
spend the summer in his native Chechnya.